Questions tagged [window-manager]
A window manager takes care of the placement and appearance of windows in a GUI-driven operating system. Sometimes, the term also refers to plugins that extend this basic functionality.
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How do I quickly position two windows side by side in Windows Tablet mode with a keyboard shortcut instead of moving the window to the side?
When in Tablet mode:
I cannot just press the shortcut as in How do I quickly position two windows side by side? to split the screen into two windows:
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Ubuntu - When clicking task bar, open or activate app in current window
I have a multiple monitor setup.
When I click an icon in the task bar to activate an open app it will be selected in the window where it is currently open.
Is there a way to move it to the active ...
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Stop Windows 11 restoring windows on connecting a USB dock
Whenever I connect my Windows 11 computer to a USB based dock (Specifically two different versions of the Humanscale M/Connect dock) all windows that I have minimized are restored to their opened or ...
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dwm freezes, disabling keyboard, mouse click, and making screen blink
I'm using (unpatched) dwm inside a VM with a Thinkpad P50 and it freezes/crash randomly. When it happens, I'm still able to move the cursor (but cannot click), and the keyboard is frozen, repeating ...
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Windows Click to focus without clicking inside
I'd like to implement functionality such that I can click click anywhere on an unfocused window to focus it without triggering anything inside. I'm not talking about hover / focus-follows-mouse.
Is ...
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Stop apps from moving Linux workspaces when switching KVM
Just installed CentOS Stream 9 on a new Lenovo T14 Gen 4 Intel.
I have an external display connected by HDMI.
I am using many workspaces with terminals.
When the HDMI cable is unplugged from the ...
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cannot scroll down to click okay in libreoffice settings
I tried to follow the instructions here -
LibreOffice 4.2.1.1: do not display list of recent documents
Open the LibreOffice config: Menu "Tools" -> "Config";
In the TreeView: &...
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Get current screen dimensions in AwesomeWM
I want to get the dimensions of the current screen in AwesomeWM. I already studied the AwesomeWM documentation, especially the awesome.screen module (found here). However, I still couldn't figure out ...
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SXHKD won't stop running script
So I'm having some difficulty with SXHKD - I run this with BSPWM for context. I recently wrote a script that's able to find all windows in the active monitor, then select the desired desktop from that ...
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Cannot log in to Windows account
I am having trouble logging in to my desktop. When I enter my credentials, it says "signing in" and immediately signs out. I cannot see the desktop. The event log shows the following error:
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Windows 11 desktop switching is slow since latest update
Since a recent Windows Update (2023-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5030310) probably?), switching desktops is much slower.
I normally use Win+Tab, ...
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How can I archive same window visible in a specific tag(s) in DWM?
For example, I'm currently in tag 1, now mod+shift+2 is moving the window to tag 2. mod+s to make/unmake a window “sticky” (follows you from tag to tag)
With mod+shift+2 the window will be visible in ...
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Is it possible to make "Minimize" action send window to bottom of Alt+Tab stack in Windows 11?
I want a window to go to the "back of the stack" of the Alt+Tab list when I minimize it.
Currently, if I minimize a window and then press Alt+Tab, I return to the same window.
I'm using ...
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Disable resizing both tiled windows (left and right)
This might be hard to explain, please bear with me.
TLDR:
How can I disable the link between two tiled windows when resizing horizontally? So only
Situation:
I have two windows (let's say Firefox and ...
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What's the simplest way to display a browser-based interface on a computer without a GUI?
I am converting an old laptop into what will basically just be a terminal for some of my other computers. For the most part, I only need to ssh into my computers, and that I can do with any CLI-based ...
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Program/shortcut for "Move window to this monitor" - Windows 10 / 11
Is there a shortcut / right click option, or a program that adds shortcut / GUI option, to move a window to the current monitor?
I know I can hover on a program on the taskbar, right click the little ...
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Tie sublime text with the pdf viewer
I'm using Sublime Text 3 for LaTeX, and it works great. My only concern is that it uses an external PDF viewer (SumatraPDF), so I have 2 windows to work with. If these were the only windows I needed, ...
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How do keep window always at bottom?
I've got a terminal with the menubar and titlebar hidden and has cbonsai running on repeat. I'd like to keep it always behind any other windows, and maybe also prevent it from showing in the alt-tab ...
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Make Windows 10 Alt+Tab show all windows at once instead of paginating
When I use Alt+Tab, the preview interface only shows 22 windows, not all windows. How do I make it show all windows on screen at the same time when I Alt+Tab?
If I hold Alt and Tab multiple times, ...
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pop shell in linux mint xfce edition
I like the way windows tiles on Pop Os and I want to bring that feature into LinuxMint. When I did my research, most of the tutorials talk about this with Gnome Desktop Environment. I am using Linux ...
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How to change the parent layout in HerbstluftWM?
I would like to switch layouts from horizontal to vertical in herbstluftwm like follows
from:
╾─┐ horizontal 50% selection=1
├─╼ horizontal: 0xa0000e
└─╼ horizontal: 0x2a0000e [FOCUS]
to the ...
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Custom firefox profiles with different WM_CLASS and icons
So I have different firefox profiles that I launch in kiosk mode in order to have small apps for Youtube and Netflix. I saw this problem asked multiple times but I tried other answers and it still ...
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Windows 11 desktop icons are stacked on top of each other. How to restore them to their original positions? [duplicate]
I don't know what exactly happened, but my desktop on Windows 11 doesn't show the icons anymore. It only displays the Recycle bin and, for some reason, when it is selected the shaded region is now a ...
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Disable Windows Start menu without disabling the Windows key in Windows 10
I recently started using GlazeWM which is a tiling window manager for Windows. Even though the guide said not to, I have set my modifier key as the Win key as I have saved Alt key for shortcuts ...
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How can I pin a Chrome window with specific tabs (and only those) to a MacOS Monterey desktop?
My usual workflow requires me to have about a half dozen "frequently accessed" web apps open at all times. I'm looking for a way to lock these pages onto an "Overview" Desktop in ...
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Neofetch autostart in Awesome WM not working
Trying to run Neofetch in Linux automatically on startup in Awesome WM.
Problem is the terminal opens and closes, doesn't stay open.
If I change the gnome-terminal option to stay open, I get errors.
I'...
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Moving Windows Between Multiple Monitors (Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon)
My monitor setup is as described by the diagram above. Previously, using the move-window-to-monitor shortcut(s) (Super+Shift+{arrow direction}) I was able to move a window to whatever monitor was ...
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Can I connect to a x11vnc session without having it being displayed on my PC's monitor?
I have a desktop machine running Fedora 36 KDE. I set up x11vnc on it with a systemd service file. Whenever I connect to the desktop via realvnc on my mac, the monitor of the desktop also turns on and ...
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Move window to workspace and focus that workspace (shiftAndView) on XMonad WM
I have XMonad for a while and I have been working on this for the last couple of days, and still no solution.
Let me give you an example of what I'm trying to do:
VLC is open, move it to workspace 2 ...
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Bspwm is not working
I have installed Bspwm from AUR on my EndeavourOS distribution which was initially running the GNOME desktop environment.
I followed all the instructions on the Arch Linux wiki for Bspwm. I have made ...
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BSPWM creates false desktop when using multiple displays
I am currently trying to configure BSPWM for 2 of 3 displays in my system. I have two 1080p monitors. The left is rotated 90degrees to be vertical, and the right is typical 16:9. I also have a third ...
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Running standalone window manager without a D-Bus session in Linux
Here is a prehistory for my question, if some more details are needed, the actual question is in the second paragraph.
So I have been using standalone window manager for a couple of months on ...
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Prevent macOS automatically making a desktop when connecting to an external monitor
Title says most of it. I am running 20 desktops in macOS Monterey and use both an external monitor frequently. Whenever I connect my macbook to the external monitor, a desktop is automatically created ...
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Is it safe to move Desktop to D: Drive?
Is it safe to move Desktop to D: Drive?
I found discordant opinions on the internet, but maybe it's because it depends on the computer, and how long you have been putting things into it. In my case, ...
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Create windows which I can cycle with Alt-~?
I can make several Firefox windows (Ctrl-N) and cycle them using Alt-~ (Alt-). Emacs frames behave the same way. I'd like to know how to create windows (system, library, or other calls) which do the ...
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How to have all floating windows always on top in awesome-wm
I created a rule for this, but it only works for all existing windows when I restart awesome.
My rule is as follows,
{ rule_any = {floating=true
}, properties = { ontop= true }
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How do I make it ...
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Is there a way to stop windows from re-positioning after the desktop dimensions change?
Microsoft Windows has a feature that automatically moves and resizes all application windows whenever the desktop dimensions change. Ideally this should happen only when the user permanently shrinks ...
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How to launch terminal based programs from a program launcher?
When I'm trying to launch a terminal based software (lf or neovim for example) using rofi/wofi or any other launcher, nothing happens.
I'm using Sway as a window manager.
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Is it possible to let multiple applications run in "fullscreen mode" side by side major window managers?
Asking this question I'm having Gnome 4 on Fedora 35 on my mind and it would be nice to have a solution for Gnome but I'm not emotionally attached to it - but first things first, here is the question:
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BSPWM not starting from the display manager
I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome, when i go to the display manager, choose bspwm and type my password then hit enter the screen freezes and bspwm doesn't launch.
Here's my bspwmrc file even though I don't ...
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StackWM tiled manager for windows - How to pin windows to specific areas of the screen
UPD1: The first version of my question was not in English. I'm sorry, the developer of Stack WM placed a link to this site in their app, apparently as a place to get help from the community, so I ...
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How to not auto start lightdm at boot
I am working on the project which major on console based on opensuse. But some time need to run some gui application. I installed the lightdm. After rebooting my machine, it will auto launch the ...
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All terminals in i3 WM share the same input
I am trying out i3 tiling window manager on Ubuntu 20.04.
All terminals started with $mod+Enter share the same input: i.e. if I type something on one terminal, the same gets printed on another. This ...
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macOS Rectangle.app equivalent window mover/resizer/snapper on Windows
EDIT: this problem bothered me to the extent that I coded up my own solution to it and I have been using it. https://github.com/ahmetb/RectangleWin
I switched to Windows 10 and I sorely miss the ...
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Linux Mint : Switching window managers corrupts web browser auto-login and auto-fill
I run Linux Mint 19, but this problem has also occurred on Ubuntu (LTS).
Besides the MATE desktop manager, there is also i3, KDE, and LXQt.
The problem:
When switching from one window manager to ...
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Do Wayland "windows" really have no decorations or ways to position/resize them?
I have been experimenting with Wayland by writing some simple programs that render some basic OpenGL stuff to an EGL surface. This all works great, but I've noticed that when requesting a surface/...
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Scaling of layout depending on connected monitors in Windows?
Is there a way to automatically change the Windows layout scaling to e. g. 125% when not connected to an external display but set it back to 200% automatically when an external display is attached?
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i3 fully nested windows
Is it possible to fully nest or stack a window within another window with a tiling window manager.
The goal is to have window 1 be 'wrapper' so to speak around another window.
Window 2 is running a ...
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Set up X window manager on RHEL under WSL
I'm running RHEL 8 under WSL in Windows 10, and want to use X11 GUI. I can't upgrade to Windows 11, so I can't take advantage of the Win 11 solution to GUI for WSL.
I have set up an X server (vcxsrv, ...
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Window manager stalling with specific mouse pointer shape after hitting Ctrl-Z
I have had a complete stall of the X window manager which happened just as I was trying to stop a process with keystrokes. I wonder whether the cause of the stall can be identified, or whether I could ...
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